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"Fascinating and provocative, this collection is sure to attract wide attention as the latest collective statement of the major directions in which 'New Americanist' scholarship is heading."--Lawrence Buell, author of "Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture, and Environment in the U.S. and Beyond"
List of contents
Acknowledgments vii
Futures / Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman 1
Posthegemonic
What’s in a Name? / Jan Radway 45
The International within the National: American Studies and Asian American Critique / Lisa Lowe 76
The Future in the Present: Sexual Avant-Gardes and the Performance of Utopia / Jose Esteban Munoz 93
Manifest Domesticity / Amy Kaplan 111
C. L. R. James,
Moby-Dick, and the Emergence of Transnational American Studies / Donald E. Pease 135
Comparativist
Postnationalism, Globalism, and the New American Studies / John Carlos Rowe 167
Salesman in Moscow / Dana Heller 183
The Humanities in the Age of Expressive Individualism and Cultural Radicalism / Winfried Fluck 211
Autobiographies of Ex-White Men: Why Race is Not a Social Construction / Walter Benn Michaels 231
Color Blindness and Acting Out / Carl Gutierrez-Jones 248
Differential
Whiteness Studies and the Paradox of Particularity / Robyn Wiegman 269
Identities and Identity Studies: Reading Toni Cade Bambara’s “The Hammer Man” / Lindon Barrett 305
Hemispheric Vertigo: Cuba, Quebec, and Other Provisional Reconfigurations of “Our” New America(s) / Ricardo L. Ortiz 327
Marriage as Treason: Polygamy, Nation, and the Novel / Nancy Bentley 341
Litigious Therapeutics: Recovering the Rights of Children / Gillian Brown 371
American Studies in the “Age of the World Picture”: Thinking the Question of Language / William V. Spanos 387
Counterhegemonic
Work and Culture in American Studies / Michael Denning 419
“Sent for You Yesterday, Here You Come Today”: American Studies Scholarship and the New Social Movements / George Lipsitz 441
Toward a Dialogics of International American Culture Studies: Transnationality, Border, Discourses, and Public Culture(s) / Gunter H. Lenz 461
American Studies, American Politics, and the Reinvention of Class / Paul Lauter 486
The End of Academia: The Future of American Studies / Eric Cheyfitz 510
Nation dot com: American Studies and the Production of the Corporatist Citizen / Russ Castronovo 536
Afterword
ConsterNation / Dana D. Nelson 559
Bibliography 581
Contributors 609
Index 613
About the author
Donald E. Pease and Robyn Wiegman, eds.
Summary
A state-of-the-art portrait of the field of American studies -- its interests and methodologies, its interactions with the social and cultural movements it describes and attempts to explain, and a compendium of likely directions the field will take in the future.
